Re: Connect with null passphrases

Hello,

we use ssh keys for cron jobs. The private keys used for connecting dont
require a password.

http://www.ssh3.com/support/documentation/online/ssh/adminguide/32/Public-Key_Authentication-2.html

John Stefani schrieb:
> Hello Everybody,
>
> I have some cron jobs that use ssh (version 4.4p1) to connect to other
> servers and run certain tasks.  The users in question sometimes are
> real users, sometimes fictitious users that I created only for running
> the cron job.  I changed to *NP* the password field of /etc/shadow for
> the fictitious users on the servers the cron jobs connect to, and all
> works happily.  Here's my problem:  those servers to which the cron
> job tries to connect to as a real user, who has a real password, does
> not allow ssh connections with null passphrases.  I can't set the
> password field in /etc/shadow to *NP* because sometimes I have to
> connect as the real user. Does someone know how I can connect
> automatically to a server, using ssh, as a user that has a password,
> but with a null passphrase?  Hope the above was not too confusing...
>
> Absolutely any thoughts or workarounds will be much appreciated.
>
>   John Stefani
>     jstefani _at_ yorku.ca